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You’re probably thrilled to have the entire Internet to browse—where else would you find so many places to play Texas Hold ‘Em? But for a nine-year-old, that’s an awful lot of information to sift through. Quintura for Kids is a pretty limited search engine that uses a tag cloud to let young browsers refine their results. Start with one of their suggested searches, or type your own, and you’ll see new tags appear.

Quintura for Kids knows what kids are looking for—the site includes icons for six of the most common searches: around the world, computers and games, music, TV, movies, and sports. Those categories don’t sound like an educator’s dream, but Quintura for Kids did a decent job of pointing kids toward sites that could be useful in a classroom. Results are drawn from the Yahoo! Kids engine, so you can be pretty confident that they’re kid safe—and not Texas Hold ‘Em sites.

In fact, my only real complaint about Quintura for Kids was the name of the site. You’d better bookmark it now, because the benefits of easy searching are pretty limited if you can’t spell “quintura” and get to the site in the first place. -ROSS WHITE

Quintura for Kids